A NEW resident came home to find her neighbour had left a hostile note - before pilfering a set of garden pots.
Shelby Major had plans to plant some flowers before an infuriated local lashed out at her disorganised porch.
The aggressive message on her garden pots, found shortly after moving in, read "move or you will be fined".
Shelby had moved into her condo in a US homeowner's association in Charlotte, North Carolina, only a month and a half before the "juicy neighbourhood drama" erupted.
But it has now progressed from a rude memo to her pots being stolen - with Shelby saying she's set to use a video doorbell to unmask her neighbourhood foe's identity.
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In a video shared online, Shelby admitted she knew she would have to "neaten" up her courtyard a bit, with the pots initially arranged around a garden carrier box.
But she did not expect to spark fury with her porch display - and was shocked to see how the mystery neighbour escalated the drama.
In the initial video, Shelby says: "Obviously, like any homeowner's association, they're going to find you if you're doing something wrong or against the rules.
"But normally those finds come in an actual formal email. It's a formal notice."
After discovering the rude note, Shelby stuck it to a community message board - saying she was "really upset about it".
Ending the video, she pledges to buy a doorbell with an inbuilt-camera, to catch the neighbour in the act.
In a follow-up clip shared two days later and captioned "I am LIVID", Shelby accuses the neighbour of stealing her watering can.
Filming an empty spot where the can had previously been, Shelby says: "They literally stole my watering can.
"Thank goodness my doorbell is supposed to be here tomorrow, so we will be able to see who the real culprit is."
But in an update a month and a half later, she revealed her cunning plan had failed - after the doorbell's batteries died.
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Shelby says: "In a crazy turn of events, today was my birthday and I was out to dinner with my parents.
"And I come home and two of my pots are missing.
"The white planter and the terracotta planter - those are now gone."
She confesses her ring camera plan was scuppered by dead batteries - vowing to replace them and saying next time "hopefully we'll catch them".
She adds: "Whoever is doing this clearly is still p****d off."
